July 8, 2026 • 21 mins
(July 08, 2026)
President Trump says ceasefire is over. Voters and politicians look ahead as they await Platners decision. DHS bought two California immigrant detention centers for $1.5BIL. Krispy Kreme needs an artisanal touch to make ‘He-Man’ doughnuts.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty cease five.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
KFI AM six forty bill Handle. Here it is Aday, Wednesday,
July eighth. A quick word about Friday at A thirty
is ask handle anything, and that's where you get to
ask the questions to embarrass me. Neil chooses the questions
to embarrass me. And here's how it works. During the show.
You go to the iHeartRadio app, click on the KFI
(00:35):
this show will be streaming, and then there's a microphone
in the upright hand corner. Click on that and you'll
have ten to fifteen seconds to ask a question, which
is recorded, and then Neil chooses the best questions to
ask A thirty in the morning on Friday. Now, a
quick word about what's happening or not happening over in Iran,
(00:56):
and that is the ceasefire isn't ceasing, lusts fire And
according to the President, the ceasefire between Iran and the
United States is over.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
This is days after escalating attacks and it looks like
the prospect of major hostilities renewed hostilities are there. And
so I want to make a point here this by
the way, Trump said this in a meetium of NATO leaders,
and this is right after the US launched eighty strikes
on Iran in response to Iran attacking ships passing through
(01:31):
the state or form moves. Now, one of the things
that I really like about President Trump. He does not
engage in political speech. He does not speak as you
would expect any normal president or any other president to speak,
where statements are measured, they're careful, they are looked at
(01:53):
in terms of what kind of response is this going
to get? Very carefully statements. Nope. And this is one
of the things I like about this president. They're scum,
they're sick people, They're led by sick people. They're vicious,
violent people. Far as I'm concerned, it's just a waste
(02:14):
of time dealing with them. They're liars, there's something wrong
with them. They're cuckoo. And as far as I'm concerned,
it's over.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Well.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I don't think there's much doubt where he's coming from now.
As I said, I enjoy this. I think this guy
brings to the table the way presidents think and would
never say. And he also said talks with Iron could continue,
but he was skeptical they would even be productive and
he and he went on, they can talk, but I
(02:46):
think they're wasting their time.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
They're a bunch of lying guys.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
They're bad people, and frankly, I don't want to waste
my time with them.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Now.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I'll let our wonderful negotiators keep talking if they want,
But I don't see it. So the talks were about
opening the Strait of Hormuse. Iran has not yet committed
to not controlling the Strait of Hormose or not charging tolls.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
That is up.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Keep in mind that the Strait was an open, international
free waterway prior to this war. Iran never even considered
shutting down the strait, and this war kicked it off.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Also, the nuclear deal, they're.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Talking about nuclear weapons deal in the enriched uranium program.
That's up in the air, And there's a lot of controversy.
Because we opened up negotiations that cease fire sixty day
cease fire sanctions were lifted. Iran was allowed to sell
(03:55):
its oil on the open market, which for years it
has no been able to do. And here is I
think a big issue is that the president lives in
a society where public sentiment actually has influence. I mean,
he looks at poles, and he looks at which way
(04:16):
the public is viewing him and which way the wind
is blowing. You think anybody in Iron cares who's in power?
Do you think they care one iota of what the
public thinks or what the polls show.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Of course not.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I mean they're prepared to kill thousands of their own people.
So right now, it's not full scale war. It's a
tit for tat. Well, actually it's a tat for no
tit because it's okay, I'm not gonna it's not a
(04:55):
tit for tat. It's a tat but okay, I'm just
leaving it alone. I'm referencing the fact that we have
attacked Iran, and Iran has not attacked anybody other than
closing the straight Again, well they did.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
They shot on three ships that were going through the
Strait and KWA and I think it was that before
the for tat or the tat. It may have been
after we responded.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Okay, So that was a tat for following Ai. That
was tatty. Okay, damn I get paid for this, you
know that? Is that a scary thought?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
It's a horrible, horrible shame.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah, I know, and people often ask, how is that possible?
I have no idea, don't know. All right, let's do
a little bit of national politics and has to do
with the Democrats hope to flip the Senate to a
Democratic majority, and one of the most hopeful races was
(06:11):
Graham Plattner, Democrat Senate, to candidate against Susan Collins, who's
been there for three terms as a Republican Senator, and.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
She was one of the most vulnerable to lose her seat.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
The problem with Platner is he came onto the scene
with some baggage, and that is sexual misconduct, writing texts
to women, many of them or several of them, inappropriate
ones unless you think that sexting is appropriate. And that
(06:46):
was he admitted to that, and he had just been
married and he was sending those texts. Now, the accusations
were beyond that that, in fact, he had conducted himself inappropriately,
and so on Monday, a woman goes forward with an
allegation that he outright raped her.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Whoa.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Oh, by the way, he also had a Nazi symbol
that was tattooed. I don't know where it was tattooed
on his body, but he erased it, had it removed,
and said I had no idea I had a Nazi affiliations. Yeah,
that old swastika, you know, doesn't mean much in terms
of Nazism. I don't even know what that what the
symbol was. Has that they even been brought forward what
(07:33):
exactly it was, because I haven't heard. I don't know
in any case. So that's Monday. A woman who used
to date Platner said he assaulted her in twenty twenty one.
He denied the allegation, and he was starting to lose supporters.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
I mean, already it was iffy. Now.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
The next day, a second ex girlfriend goes to the Post,
the Washington Post and said that Platner repeatedly removed protection
without her consent as they were having sex.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
He has called the campaign.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
He has called that claim categorically false and politically motivated.
Or I thought she was talking about my clothes when
she said, get rid of that thing, do not take
it off.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Hmm. Okay, that probably didn't fly either.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
So by now you've got state and national Democrats or
pressuring him to quit the race, and it was you know,
the fact that he got started anyway, is that he
was able to get the votes, and he was during
the primary and the voters said, ah, come on, no
big deal. What I do not like about the Democrats
(08:50):
is the hypocrisy of them willing to whenever a Republican
is nailed on sexual misconduct. Man, they're jumping up and
down to make sure that everybody knows about it. Those
pervert Republicans, which they are. How about the pervert Democrats
which there are? And all of a sudden, Platiner his
(09:12):
accusation is sort of swept under the rug and let's
downplay it. I'll tell you who really downplayed it, Bernie Sanders.
Bernie Sanders is seen at these rallies holding Plattner's arm
up as if he has just won a boxing championship
and ignored the allegations. Totally ignored the allegations. What is
(09:39):
that about. Well, Bernie Sanders has changed his mind because
at this point he's lost it. Now there's another spin
on this is if he doesn't bail out by Monday voluntarily,
his name is on the ballot. He is the Democratic nominee.
(10:00):
He is going to get three votes. And Susan Collins,
who looks up at the sky, says, thank you God,
thank you for Graham Platner is going to win and
probably the biggest landslide she's ever had. Now, if Graham
Plattner does bail out, which he already says, I'm relooking
at which way to go forward, that means he's Bailey. Now,
(10:23):
the Denver Panta Party Maine has two weeks in which
to select a replacement. They can't do an election, so
it's going to have to be I guess the party,
the senior party executives. I mean, who is going to
get that spot. And there are a few front runners,
(10:44):
people that ran in the primary, but it's gonna be tough.
This is one weird one man you know today and
this is a good thing. And I was just talking
to a few people, including my daughter and including lindsay
that men just get away with so much.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Hey, not so much anymore now.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
When the me too movement was there, a simple allegation
got someone fired and that went crazy. And now I
think it has settled down to let's look at the evidence.
Plattner had said that the allegation as Monday, as far
as Monday was concerned where the rape took place, and
(11:33):
he said, oh, it's just operatives from the other side
as people that want to accuse me and make sure
I'm not that I lose the race. This woman has
no credibility an interview with Jake Tapper she did of CNN.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
She has all the credibility in the world. This is
not a woman who made this up, not if you
listen to her.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Okay, oh, here is a real estate deal that the
DHU has Department Homeland Security.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Man.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Occasionally you get a deal that sounds pretty good, this one.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Not so much. The Department of Homeland.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Security has just bought two detention centers, one in California
City has no idea where that is and O te
Mesa has no idea where that is. But these were
two of the largest They are the largest detention centers
in California, and was one point five billion dollars to
buy both of these. And the question is why. Well,
(12:38):
one reason that's being given is that once it leaves
the state of California, it's jurisdiction. They're not going to
physically leave, but the jurisdiction it becomes a federal facility.
The state has very little control, and the DHS does
not like state control, particularly California. And I think what's
(13:00):
interesting about this, First of all, the whole issue with
Department of Homeland Security. Under that one bit of a
big beautiful bill Act, the Department gets one hundred and
seventy billion dollars this fiscal year. They do not know
what to do with the money that they're sitting on.
They have so much money. Now, how about the entitlement
(13:21):
programs that are out there. The money that's going to
is going to medical research, that's going to local hospitals,
that's going for education, that's for the most part being
gutted completely. And we'll talk more about that a little
bit later on at A twenty and so they ended
up buying these two facilities, and we're talking about a
(13:42):
lot of beds too, two thousand at the ote Mesa facility,
twenty five hundred at the California City Detention, and a.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Lot of them are well, they're just not very full.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Now the government is saying the reason they're not very
full because we're processing people very quickly and so they're
in and out. And so my favorite story of the detention,
and this was a big story, and Amy will certainly
remember it because she reported on it many times, is
I remember alligator Alcatraz that was built in Florida out
(14:20):
in the middle of the boonies. Four hundred million dollars
they spent on it, and I think at the highest
point they had twelve or thirteen detainees and then I mean,
nobody went there and then they shut it down four
hundred million dollars poof. And maybe they're going to make
(14:42):
it a refuge for manatees and feeding them cabbage heads.
I have no idea what they're going to do, but
there is a whole lot of controversy regarding them. So immediately,
both core Civic, the company that has the contract that
runs the facilities, is still going to run the facility,
and these are multi billion dollar contracts cor Civic has
(15:07):
with the US governments, and nothing is going to change.
Courcivic is still going to be doing what it does.
The ownership of the facility, however, is going to go
to the federal government.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
And what do they do. This is going to.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Be a prophesizing history here, because as immigration starts heading
downhill and believing it already has. One of the things
that President Trump has said is one of the main
tenets of his campaign, his belief that has been going
on for a very long time. This is not just
a political move on his part. Is he has been
(15:45):
against immigration for a very long time.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
He believes in legal immigration, but he has made legal
immigration almost impossible for anybody to come into this country
very difficult. The visa requirements, the one B or HB
one of visas which now are one hundred thousand dollars
for a company instead of five thousand dollars to bring
in skill that foreigners foreigners into the particularly the computer industry,
(16:14):
and so he has made it very, very difficult. And
the more successful he is, and he is being very successful,
the fewer detention centers that are going to be needed.
And why the federal government needs to buy these detention
centers when they're already owned by the statan when they
don't need them anymore, they don't need them. Thank you
walking away for it. Why should you be a buyer
(16:38):
when you can rent and walk away when you no
longer need to rent?
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Okay, a story about Krispy Kreme.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
I really enjoy this because it's number one Krispy Kreme,
which I like, and it is a business story and
chief executive John Charlesworth is trying to turn Krispy Kreme around.
It's actually been losing money, and one of the ways
it's been trying to regain its market share is now
(17:08):
sales through retailers Walmart, Ralphs, where I go shopping all
the time. You can buy they have a stand a
Kiosk Wha. You can buy Krispy Kreme donuts six packs,
twelve packs. And here's something that's fun. Here's a stat
for you, a billion donuts a year.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Now.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
What makes the company difficult to turn around is that
it manufactures its own equipment, shapes, bakes, glazes. The donuts
sells in more than forty countries around the world, so
all of the different toppings that they have the specialty donuts,
Kate crumbles, Graham cracker, crust toppings, star spangled sprinkles.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
I don't know why they do.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Star spangled sprinkles because half of their market just doesn't exist.
There isn't a straight man on the planet that would
buy a donut with sprinkles on it.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
I'd do it in a heartbeat, not eating. I rest
my case.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
There isn't a straight man on the planet that would
buy a donut with sprinkles on it.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
I've just never under I'm sorry, imous, what's wrong with sprinkles?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Yeah, there sprinkles. There are sprinkles. There's my daughter when
she was doing her unicorn birthday parties, you know, little girls'
birthday parties, which she actually did right through her twenties.
To be honest with you, it was sprinkles on the donuts.
By the way, I'm not exaggerating about the birthday party
(18:36):
business anyway. It's just it's a difficult turnaround because the
company manufactures its own equipment to make just the regular donuts.
I mean, you look at the glazed donuts, the crispy cream.
Crispy cream has remember do you remember the days when
(18:58):
a batch would come out to be sold and the
red light and the siren would come up, and people
would line up by the hundreds and hundreds and stand
in line to grab donuts, and then they have to
wait for the next batch to come out. Boy, are
those days gone? And again it's a problem with those
specialty donuts. You know why, because they all have to
(19:20):
be made by hand, not the donut part itself, because
that goes into the blast though five thousand machine and
the glazing goes on. But the sprinkles and their specialty
donuts like Harry Potter, he Man milk bar donuts. They
all have to be finished off by hand. And whenever
you're talking about millions of donuts being sold and part
(19:44):
of the process is hand sprinkling sprinkles, man, I don't
understand sprinkles. I don't really. And here's the other part
about this. I didn't know this either. The average Krispy
Kreme customer only buys two three times a year. I
didn't know that half the clientele is under thirty five.
(20:08):
So what they have to do is come out with
these limited edition donuts that can be stars on social media.
So what Krispy Kreme does is now run fifteen to
twenty special runs of donuts a year, plus a collection
for each season, and the staff decorating them by hand.
And according to Charles Worth, the CEO, that alone is
(20:30):
worth the effort, even though they're losing money on it.
So they have to turn it around. And Neil, you
and I have talked about this. With all these the
fast food places, they all have specialties, they all have
seasonal items, and now we're looking at Krispy Kreme. In
this case, we're going to see product after product after
(20:51):
product become seasonal.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Well, yeah, the easiest thing to do for any company
to wake you up is to have a sale. It's
hard to do that on a three dollars donut, So,
I mean, you could do stuff by the dozen or weather.
So what they have to do is they have to
create things that cause buzz and people talking.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
So yeah, all right, So we're gonna have a specialty
Earthday Krispy Kreme donuts.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Filled with dirt, Filled with dirt, Okay.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
And it tastes, Yes, a Krispy Kreme donut that smells
and tastes like compost. I'm telling you there's some winners here.
I should work for these people. Okay, we're done, guys,
coming up, interesting story about Waymo. God, I love this story.
What happened to Waymo and what happened to a couple
of kids that were writing in a Waymo vehicle.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
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KFI AM six forty bill Handle. Here it is Aday, Wednesday,
July eighth. A quick word about Friday at A thirty
is ask handle anything, and that's where you get to
ask the questions to embarrass me. Neil chooses the questions
to embarrass me. And here's how it works. During the show.
You go to the iHeartRadio app, click on the KFI
(00:35):
this show will be streaming, and then there's a microphone
in the upright hand corner. Click on that and you'll
have ten to fifteen seconds to ask a question, which
is recorded, and then Neil chooses the best questions to
ask A thirty in the morning on Friday. Now, a
quick word about what's happening or not happening over in Iran,
(00:56):
and that is the ceasefire isn't ceasing, lusts fire And
according to the President, the ceasefire between Iran and the
United States is over.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
This is days after escalating attacks and it looks like
the prospect of major hostilities renewed hostilities are there. And
so I want to make a point here this by
the way, Trump said this in a meetium of NATO leaders,
and this is right after the US launched eighty strikes
on Iran in response to Iran attacking ships passing through
(01:31):
the state or form moves. Now, one of the things
that I really like about President Trump. He does not
engage in political speech. He does not speak as you
would expect any normal president or any other president to speak,
where statements are measured, they're careful, they are looked at
(01:53):
in terms of what kind of response is this going
to get? Very carefully statements. Nope. And this is one
of the things I like about this president. They're scum,
they're sick people, They're led by sick people. They're vicious,
violent people. Far as I'm concerned, it's just a waste
(02:14):
of time dealing with them. They're liars, there's something wrong
with them. They're cuckoo. And as far as I'm concerned,
it's over.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Well.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I don't think there's much doubt where he's coming from now.
As I said, I enjoy this. I think this guy
brings to the table the way presidents think and would
never say. And he also said talks with Iron could continue,
but he was skeptical they would even be productive and
he and he went on, they can talk, but I
(02:46):
think they're wasting their time.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
They're a bunch of lying guys.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
They're bad people, and frankly, I don't want to waste
my time with them.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Now.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I'll let our wonderful negotiators keep talking if they want,
But I don't see it. So the talks were about
opening the Strait of Hormuse. Iran has not yet committed
to not controlling the Strait of Hormose or not charging tolls.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
That is up.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Keep in mind that the Strait was an open, international
free waterway prior to this war. Iran never even considered
shutting down the strait, and this war kicked it off.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Also, the nuclear deal, they're.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Talking about nuclear weapons deal in the enriched uranium program.
That's up in the air, And there's a lot of controversy.
Because we opened up negotiations that cease fire sixty day
cease fire sanctions were lifted. Iran was allowed to sell
(03:55):
its oil on the open market, which for years it
has no been able to do. And here is I
think a big issue is that the president lives in
a society where public sentiment actually has influence. I mean,
he looks at poles, and he looks at which way
(04:16):
the public is viewing him and which way the wind
is blowing. You think anybody in Iron cares who's in power?
Do you think they care one iota of what the
public thinks or what the polls show.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Of course not.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I mean they're prepared to kill thousands of their own people.
So right now, it's not full scale war. It's a
tit for tat. Well, actually it's a tat for no
tit because it's okay, I'm not gonna it's not a
(04:55):
tit for tat. It's a tat but okay, I'm just
leaving it alone. I'm referencing the fact that we have
attacked Iran, and Iran has not attacked anybody other than
closing the straight Again, well they did.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
They shot on three ships that were going through the
Strait and KWA and I think it was that before
the for tat or the tat. It may have been
after we responded.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Okay, So that was a tat for following Ai. That
was tatty. Okay, damn I get paid for this, you
know that? Is that a scary thought?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
It's a horrible, horrible shame.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah, I know, and people often ask, how is that possible?
I have no idea, don't know. All right, let's do
a little bit of national politics and has to do
with the Democrats hope to flip the Senate to a
Democratic majority, and one of the most hopeful races was
(06:11):
Graham Plattner, Democrat Senate, to candidate against Susan Collins, who's
been there for three terms as a Republican Senator, and.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
She was one of the most vulnerable to lose her seat.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
The problem with Platner is he came onto the scene
with some baggage, and that is sexual misconduct, writing texts
to women, many of them or several of them, inappropriate
ones unless you think that sexting is appropriate. And that
(06:46):
was he admitted to that, and he had just been
married and he was sending those texts. Now, the accusations
were beyond that that, in fact, he had conducted himself inappropriately,
and so on Monday, a woman goes forward with an
allegation that he outright raped her.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Whoa.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Oh, by the way, he also had a Nazi symbol
that was tattooed. I don't know where it was tattooed
on his body, but he erased it, had it removed,
and said I had no idea I had a Nazi affiliations. Yeah,
that old swastika, you know, doesn't mean much in terms
of Nazism. I don't even know what that what the
symbol was. Has that they even been brought forward what
(07:33):
exactly it was, because I haven't heard. I don't know
in any case. So that's Monday. A woman who used
to date Platner said he assaulted her in twenty twenty one.
He denied the allegation, and he was starting to lose supporters.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
I mean, already it was iffy. Now.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
The next day, a second ex girlfriend goes to the Post,
the Washington Post and said that Platner repeatedly removed protection
without her consent as they were having sex.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
He has called the campaign.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
He has called that claim categorically false and politically motivated.
Or I thought she was talking about my clothes when
she said, get rid of that thing, do not take
it off.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Hmm. Okay, that probably didn't fly either.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
So by now you've got state and national Democrats or
pressuring him to quit the race, and it was you know,
the fact that he got started anyway, is that he
was able to get the votes, and he was during
the primary and the voters said, ah, come on, no
big deal. What I do not like about the Democrats
(08:50):
is the hypocrisy of them willing to whenever a Republican
is nailed on sexual misconduct. Man, they're jumping up and
down to make sure that everybody knows about it. Those
pervert Republicans, which they are. How about the pervert Democrats
which there are? And all of a sudden, Platiner his
(09:12):
accusation is sort of swept under the rug and let's
downplay it. I'll tell you who really downplayed it, Bernie Sanders.
Bernie Sanders is seen at these rallies holding Plattner's arm
up as if he has just won a boxing championship
and ignored the allegations. Totally ignored the allegations. What is
(09:39):
that about. Well, Bernie Sanders has changed his mind because
at this point he's lost it. Now there's another spin
on this is if he doesn't bail out by Monday voluntarily,
his name is on the ballot. He is the Democratic nominee.
(10:00):
He is going to get three votes. And Susan Collins,
who looks up at the sky, says, thank you God,
thank you for Graham Platner is going to win and
probably the biggest landslide she's ever had. Now, if Graham
Plattner does bail out, which he already says, I'm relooking
at which way to go forward, that means he's Bailey. Now,
(10:23):
the Denver Panta Party Maine has two weeks in which
to select a replacement. They can't do an election, so
it's going to have to be I guess the party,
the senior party executives. I mean, who is going to
get that spot. And there are a few front runners,
(10:44):
people that ran in the primary, but it's gonna be tough.
This is one weird one man you know today and
this is a good thing. And I was just talking
to a few people, including my daughter and including lindsay
that men just get away with so much.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Hey, not so much anymore now.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
When the me too movement was there, a simple allegation
got someone fired and that went crazy. And now I
think it has settled down to let's look at the evidence.
Plattner had said that the allegation as Monday, as far
as Monday was concerned where the rape took place, and
(11:33):
he said, oh, it's just operatives from the other side
as people that want to accuse me and make sure
I'm not that I lose the race. This woman has
no credibility an interview with Jake Tapper she did of CNN.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
She has all the credibility in the world. This is
not a woman who made this up, not if you
listen to her.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Okay, oh, here is a real estate deal that the
DHU has Department Homeland Security.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Man.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Occasionally you get a deal that sounds pretty good, this one.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Not so much. The Department of Homeland.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Security has just bought two detention centers, one in California
City has no idea where that is and O te
Mesa has no idea where that is. But these were
two of the largest They are the largest detention centers
in California, and was one point five billion dollars to
buy both of these. And the question is why. Well,
(12:38):
one reason that's being given is that once it leaves
the state of California, it's jurisdiction. They're not going to
physically leave, but the jurisdiction it becomes a federal facility.
The state has very little control, and the DHS does
not like state control, particularly California. And I think what's
(13:00):
interesting about this, First of all, the whole issue with
Department of Homeland Security. Under that one bit of a
big beautiful bill Act, the Department gets one hundred and
seventy billion dollars this fiscal year. They do not know
what to do with the money that they're sitting on.
They have so much money. Now, how about the entitlement
(13:21):
programs that are out there. The money that's going to
is going to medical research, that's going to local hospitals,
that's going for education, that's for the most part being
gutted completely. And we'll talk more about that a little
bit later on at A twenty and so they ended
up buying these two facilities, and we're talking about a
(13:42):
lot of beds too, two thousand at the ote Mesa facility,
twenty five hundred at the California City Detention, and a.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Lot of them are well, they're just not very full.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Now the government is saying the reason they're not very
full because we're processing people very quickly and so they're
in and out. And so my favorite story of the detention,
and this was a big story, and Amy will certainly
remember it because she reported on it many times, is
I remember alligator Alcatraz that was built in Florida out
(14:20):
in the middle of the boonies. Four hundred million dollars
they spent on it, and I think at the highest
point they had twelve or thirteen detainees and then I mean,
nobody went there and then they shut it down four
hundred million dollars poof. And maybe they're going to make
(14:42):
it a refuge for manatees and feeding them cabbage heads.
I have no idea what they're going to do, but
there is a whole lot of controversy regarding them. So immediately,
both core Civic, the company that has the contract that
runs the facilities, is still going to run the facility,
and these are multi billion dollar contracts cor Civic has
(15:07):
with the US governments, and nothing is going to change.
Courcivic is still going to be doing what it does.
The ownership of the facility, however, is going to go
to the federal government.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
And what do they do. This is going to.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Be a prophesizing history here, because as immigration starts heading
downhill and believing it already has. One of the things
that President Trump has said is one of the main
tenets of his campaign, his belief that has been going
on for a very long time. This is not just
a political move on his part. Is he has been
(15:45):
against immigration for a very long time.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
He believes in legal immigration, but he has made legal
immigration almost impossible for anybody to come into this country
very difficult. The visa requirements, the one B or HB
one of visas which now are one hundred thousand dollars
for a company instead of five thousand dollars to bring
in skill that foreigners foreigners into the particularly the computer industry,
(16:14):
and so he has made it very, very difficult. And
the more successful he is, and he is being very successful,
the fewer detention centers that are going to be needed.
And why the federal government needs to buy these detention
centers when they're already owned by the statan when they
don't need them anymore, they don't need them. Thank you
walking away for it. Why should you be a buyer
(16:38):
when you can rent and walk away when you no
longer need to rent?
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Okay, a story about Krispy Kreme.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
I really enjoy this because it's number one Krispy Kreme,
which I like, and it is a business story and
chief executive John Charlesworth is trying to turn Krispy Kreme around.
It's actually been losing money, and one of the ways
it's been trying to regain its market share is now
(17:08):
sales through retailers Walmart, Ralphs, where I go shopping all
the time. You can buy they have a stand a
Kiosk Wha. You can buy Krispy Kreme donuts six packs,
twelve packs. And here's something that's fun. Here's a stat
for you, a billion donuts a year.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Now.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
What makes the company difficult to turn around is that
it manufactures its own equipment, shapes, bakes, glazes. The donuts
sells in more than forty countries around the world, so
all of the different toppings that they have the specialty donuts,
Kate crumbles, Graham cracker, crust toppings, star spangled sprinkles.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
I don't know why they do.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Star spangled sprinkles because half of their market just doesn't exist.
There isn't a straight man on the planet that would
buy a donut with sprinkles on it.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
I'd do it in a heartbeat, not eating. I rest
my case.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
There isn't a straight man on the planet that would
buy a donut with sprinkles on it.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
I've just never under I'm sorry, imous, what's wrong with sprinkles?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Yeah, there sprinkles. There are sprinkles. There's my daughter when
she was doing her unicorn birthday parties, you know, little girls'
birthday parties, which she actually did right through her twenties.
To be honest with you, it was sprinkles on the donuts.
By the way, I'm not exaggerating about the birthday party
(18:36):
business anyway. It's just it's a difficult turnaround because the
company manufactures its own equipment to make just the regular donuts.
I mean, you look at the glazed donuts, the crispy cream.
Crispy cream has remember do you remember the days when
(18:58):
a batch would come out to be sold and the
red light and the siren would come up, and people
would line up by the hundreds and hundreds and stand
in line to grab donuts, and then they have to
wait for the next batch to come out. Boy, are
those days gone? And again it's a problem with those
specialty donuts. You know why, because they all have to
(19:20):
be made by hand, not the donut part itself, because
that goes into the blast though five thousand machine and
the glazing goes on. But the sprinkles and their specialty
donuts like Harry Potter, he Man milk bar donuts. They
all have to be finished off by hand. And whenever
you're talking about millions of donuts being sold and part
(19:44):
of the process is hand sprinkling sprinkles, man, I don't
understand sprinkles. I don't really. And here's the other part
about this. I didn't know this either. The average Krispy
Kreme customer only buys two three times a year. I
didn't know that half the clientele is under thirty five.
(20:08):
So what they have to do is come out with
these limited edition donuts that can be stars on social media.
So what Krispy Kreme does is now run fifteen to
twenty special runs of donuts a year, plus a collection
for each season, and the staff decorating them by hand.
And according to Charles Worth, the CEO, that alone is
(20:30):
worth the effort, even though they're losing money on it.
So they have to turn it around. And Neil, you
and I have talked about this. With all these the
fast food places, they all have specialties, they all have
seasonal items, and now we're looking at Krispy Kreme. In
this case, we're going to see product after product after
(20:51):
product become seasonal.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Well, yeah, the easiest thing to do for any company
to wake you up is to have a sale. It's
hard to do that on a three dollars donut, So,
I mean, you could do stuff by the dozen or weather.
So what they have to do is they have to
create things that cause buzz and people talking.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
So yeah, all right, So we're gonna have a specialty
Earthday Krispy Kreme donuts.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Filled with dirt, Filled with dirt, Okay.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
And it tastes, Yes, a Krispy Kreme donut that smells
and tastes like compost. I'm telling you there's some winners here.
I should work for these people. Okay, we're done, guys,
coming up, interesting story about Waymo. God, I love this story.
What happened to Waymo and what happened to a couple
of kids that were writing in a Waymo vehicle.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
That's coming up. KFI Am sixty. You've been listening to
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Speaker 2 (21:50):
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